Saturday, October 30, 2010

Dendrobium masarangense var. masarangense

The name of this tiny species is bigger than the plant or the flowers. The plant is a tiny cluster of thin pseudobulbs and needle-like leaves about 7 cm tall and the flowers are about 1.5 cm, growing in pairs and showing themselves just above the pseudo-bulbs.

The plant is from New Guinea and is another one of the Oxyglossum Dendrobiums. It is a lowland species and somewhat warmer growing than many of the others. It varies some in color from white to pale yellow, green, or orange, the flowers in every case being nearly translucent.

12 comments:

I have a similar plant, although it's greener flowers might assign it to the theionanthum subspecies. I'm desesperately looking for some pollen to outcross it, would you be willing to help me with that?

Wow 30 flowers, that's good! I still will try to make a pod with your pollen, if you don't mind, as your plant is probably of the masarangense variety, from warmer climate than mines. It would be interesting to see how tolerant are the "intervarietal hybrids".

Would you also share pollen from your red agathodaemonis? I have only pink-white clones, and mixing them with some blood red genes would be fine!